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English Dictionary: pleonastic by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pleonastic
adj
  1. repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant
    Synonym(s): pleonastic, redundant, tautologic, tautological
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pleonastic \Ple`o*nas"tic\, Pleonastical \Ple`o*nas"tic*al\, a.
      [Cf. F. pl[82]onastique.]
      Of or pertaining to pleonasm; of the nature of pleonasm;
      redundant.
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